docs: Move channel factories and operators to stdlib reference - #7414
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If the tutorial feels weird, another option would be to add a section on topic channels to the "Workflows" page under "Dataflow". It would be much shorter and introductory, similar to the current |
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Looks really good already. I made very minor suggestions in #7451
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This PR builds on #7409 by consolidating the channel factories and typed operators pages into the stdlib reference:
channelnamespaceChanneltypeAlso adds a tutorial for topic channels, since the
channel.topic()reference was trying to give a mini-tutorial. I based it loosely on nf-core/rnaseq since rnaseq-nf doesn't collect tool versions and nf-core/rnaseq is the most well-known pipeline that uses this pattern